Andrei Orlov of Marquette University, author of From Apocalypticism to Merkabah Mysticism: Studies in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha (Brill, 2007), has published an extremely helpful, interesting and well-done website, The Slavonic Pseudepigrapha Project. I’ll give you three guesses as to what it’s about…. He provides numerous bibliographies (from his book), texts, translations, articles, and links toContinue reading “Slavonic Pseudepigrapha Project”
Monthly Archives: January 2007
A winter chill
A bitter wind gusts in the face, skritching leaves along the walk. Soak-sodden pants whip at the legs of the dying man who balked at love and faith throughout his life. Now with his final gasped breath born, unknown, unwept, unloved, unmourned, no child, no friend, no loved wife, and regretting lost days gone, butContinue reading “A winter chill”
The Fear of Dog
Let us fear the Lord not less than we fear beasts. For I have seen men who were going to steal and were not afraid of God, but, hearing the barking of dogs, they at once turned back; and what the fear of God could not achieve was done by the fear of animals. StContinue reading “The Fear of Dog”
The Lord is my Shepherd
Here is a collection of some translations of Psalm 23/22 including a couple that are not widely available. In the Hebrew-based count of Psalms it is number 23, but Psalm 22 in the LXX-based count of Psalms. King James Version The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie downContinue reading “The Lord is my Shepherd”
McDonald’s Biblical Canon
Consider this an explanation of the reason that I’ve yanked a 500+ page book out of my “Currently Reading” slot on the blog, after having read not even 100 pages. The book is Lee Martin McDonald’s The Biblical Canon: Its Origin, Transmission, and Authority (Hendrickson, 2007). I’m just not enjoying this book. In fact I’mContinue reading “McDonald’s Biblical Canon”
Like the sands of their own deserts
The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness. The robbers shall enter into it, &c. [Jeremiah 12.12; 7.22] The land of Israel has not only been given into the hands of strangers for a prey, and unto the wicked of the earth for a spoil, as foreign nations have successively subjugated andContinue reading “Like the sands of their own deserts”